The moment Aiden passed through the portal, he was met with the clamor of battle. They emerged on a corridor at the top of the spire, with a clear view of the four bridges connecting to the Scourge's internal teleportation array in the center.
Garen, true to his motto, was fearlessly fighting at the forefront against a horde of Scourge. A large pile of corpses already lay behind him. Lux was covering him from behind, holding back even more enemies surging forward.
More warriors poured out of the portal, catching the Scourge off guard and forcing them into retreat. However, an equal number of Scourge were converging from all directions.
Seeing the situation clearly, Aiden immediately shouted, "Sejuani, Volibear, take your people and seize the central teleportation array! Quickly!"
The central teleportation array was their only passage to the Frozen Throne and had to be firmly held.
Fearing they were short on manpower, he also ordered Sion, Veigar, and Thresh to assist.
Aiden combined his memory of the game map with the reality of the Icecrown Citadel spire before him and located the original position of the room where the Green Dragon had been imprisoned. He pointed his longsword in that direction and shouted, "Everyone else, advance north!"
The heroes and warriors split into two groups, charging towards their respective targets with unstoppable momentum. Even the Scourge's most powerful war machine, the Abomination, was helpless against such a torrent.
Two of the most formidable Flesh Golems attempted to block them, but they were quickly reduced to piles of rotten flesh under the heroes' fierce attacks. Aiden didn't even have time to identify if they were the original Rotface and Festergut from the game.
Vayne's Silver Bolts always accurately struck the heads of these lumbering creatures, Miss Fortune's twin pistols fired in unison, the black bullets even piercing through the first enemy to hit the target behind, Varok Saurfang furiously swung his battleaxe, dismembering all enemies in front of him, Vereesa and Sylvanas seemed to have developed a sense of competition, their arrows flying and taking down one enemy after another.
But it seemed that the performance of all the heroes could not overshadow the brilliance of three people:
Kayle's Righteous Blade blazed fiercely, the crisscrossing Holy Fire purifying swathes of the Scourge; the Ice Witch Lissandra was not to be outdone, she almost ignored all the enemies around her, her deep blue figure constantly shuttling through the enemies, wherever she went, all the enemies were frozen into ice crystals, shattering at a touch; and the Highlord Mograine, this paladin shouted loudly, he poured the vast holy power into the Ashbringer, that Holy Source bloomed with dazzling light, Holy Fire burned on the sword, all the Scourge in front of him were turned to ashes.
That angry Holy Fire scorched every dark soul, melting them like snow.
Every warrior was advancing bravely, they charged into the hall, tore apart all the enemies, and found the elevator at the end.
Garen, Lux, Kayle, Pamyel, Aiden, Mograine, Rhonin, Vereesa… a group of heroes stepped onto the elevator. Lux summoned a Prismatic Barrier, making them invisible. At the end of the elevator was the teleportation array guarded by the Frost Wyrms. By defeating these Blue Dragons resurrected by the Scourge, they could kill the Lich King!
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Hundreds of meters above, at the very top of Icecrown Citadel, the Lich King Ner'zhul on the Frozen Throne noticed the intruders the moment the portal appeared. He immediately summoned his Scourge servants to eliminate these fearless fools.
But things didn't go as smoothly as he had anticipated.
He saw a large group of heroes leading brave and elite soldiers, defeating his army with overwhelming force. Moreover, they seemed to know Icecrown Citadel very well, leaving a portion to guard the upper teleportation array, while the other main force rushed almost without hesitation towards the elevator leading to Frostwing Halls.
They knew how to get to him, and their purpose was very clear.
To come to the Frozen Throne and kill the Lich King!
Since he could no longer glimpse the future, everything was evolving towards failure. Now Ner'zhul even found himself in danger!
"No, I cannot accept such a shameful defeat!"
"Dar'Khan, my servant! I need you!"
"Broxigar, come to my side! Let these living people see what a true warrior is!"
"Protect me!"
His will crossed thousands of miles, delivering his decree to his loyal servants.
"Tichondrius! Quickly bring your people to my side!"
"If I fail, our master will have no chance to descend upon this world!"
"If I die, you will personally face the master's wrath!"
Ner'zhul frantically summoned his helpers, he would never allow himself to die so uselessly. He still had too many things to accomplish!
"Servants, come to Icecrown Citadel and kill these living people!" His will was transmitted to the souls of all the Scourge in Icecrown Glacier and even the entire Northrend.
Even the undead in Gilneas could hear his voice.
King Genn Greymane's dark blue eyes turned towards the direction of Northrend.
In an instant, all the Scourge began to rush towards their supreme holy land, Icecrown Citadel. Dragons flew in the sky, floating cities advanced, ghouls ran on the ground, and Crypt Fiends crawled. Hundreds of thousands of undead moved out together, and no one dared to stop them.
A lonely figure walked in the Dragonblight. He was wearing thin and ragged black clothes, and his brown hair was stained with dust and snowflakes, looking messy like dead grass.
'Liam, don't you crave revenge anymore?'
'Think of Gilneas, and your loved ones.'
'You are afraid of the enemy, you are a coward, a weakling!'
'Come, come to me, I will give you invincible power, the power to defeat anyone!'
These voices no longer had the composure and mystery of the past, now they seemed very urgent and flustered.
Even familiar people would hardly recognize that this dirty man who looked like a tramp was once the Prince of Gilneas. Liam turned a deaf ear to the voice in his ear, his lips were chapped and blue from dehydration. The cold wind was pervasive, as painful as a knife scraping bone.
His whole body was cold, only his heart had a trace of warmth left.
He thought he should be dead, but he kept walking forward, leaving footprints one after another in the desert covered with thin snow.
What's ahead?
He didn't know.
Then keep walking forward, until you find it, or finally fall!
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When the elevator reached the bottom, Aiden and the other heroes saw a large group of Crypt Spiders and Beetles surrounding the area. Lux's invisibility spell worked wonders. The bugs did not attack immediately. This doomed their fate.
"Stand behind me!"
Braum jumped out first, raising the wide and thick magic door panel in his hand to block the front. The others immediately left the elevator platform and launched an attack on the bugs. Holy Fire, Frost, Fire, Arrows, all kinds of attacks fell on the heads of the bugs, and the area was quickly cleared.
They had arrived in a closed room, Crypt Spiders were hanging down from the air on spider silk, and Beetles were constantly pouring out from the ground.
Anub'arak Krik'thir, while waving the long sword in his hand to kill the Crypt Spiders, shouted painfully: "Rest in peace, my people! I am bringing heroes to release your souls back to freedom!"
Aiden shouted, "Braum, go to that door! Break it open!"
He reminded himself that this was not a game. The door to Frostwing Halls would not automatically open just because you stayed here for a while and killed enough spiders.
"Follow me!" Braum took the lead, his shoulders aimed at the door panel as he charged forward. Before that invincible power, countless spiders in front of Braum were knocked away.
The others followed him, rushing to the locked iron gate. The iron gate was made of Saronite, a metal contaminated by the blood of the Old Gods. This metal could resist most magic, and its texture was particularly strong, making it extremely difficult to destroy.
Garen raised his greatsword high with both hands and slashed down with force, causing a string of sparks to burst out on the iron gate. The force of the rebound numbed his hands, but his full-strength strike only left a shallow, almost imperceptible mark on it.
"Let me do it!" Braum pushed the others aside. He raised his huge shield and, after a short run-up, slammed it into the iron gate with all his might. After a loud metallic boom, the thick iron bars showed some slight deformation.
If Garen failed because his weapon wasn't good enough, Braum's failure proved the sturdiness of the iron gate. Because the "Heart of the Freljord" possessed unparalleled power, and his shield was also an ancient weapon inherited from the ancient times—like Ashe's ice bow and Sejuani's flail, they were all artifacts.
Kayle intended to come forward and try with the Judgement Blade, but Aiden stopped her:
"Hold them back, let me do it!" He stepped forward, gently placing his hand on the cold iron gate, feeling its essence.
Saronite contained some maddening power, and the Old Gods were such creatures. They tried every means to induce people to madness and depravity.
Aiden was not going to use brute force.
'Remove this power, and it will become ordinary iron,' he tried to use his power. Magic intertwined with time, holy light, and nature surged, seeping into the iron gate through his palm. He clearly felt the evil power within fading until it disappeared completely.
At this time, he stood up and brandished the Silver Judgment. A blue flame streaked across, and the originally unbreakable iron gate was instantly cut open as if it were made of paper. With a gentle push, it fell to the ground.
With the influx of more troops, this place had been controlled by them. Crypt Fiends and beetles couldn't resist their attacks at all, and they died as soon as they appeared. Even under the attacks of the Frost Archers, many spiders died in mid-air before they could land.
"Follow me, kill the Frost Dragon! Open the final seal leading to the Frozen Throne!" Aiden shouted and was the first to step through the iron gate, arriving at the Frostwing Halls.
In the wide ground and sky in front of him, dozens of resurrected blue dragons were staring in this direction.
Their leader was an ice dragon with a particularly large skeleton. Its body length exceeded fifty meters, and the powerful soul fire radiated through the skeleton, its cold blue eyes staring at this group of invaders.
"A bunch of fools who dare to disturb my master, you dare to break into my territory! Northrend's frost will devour your pathetic souls!"
Rhonin and Saurfang looked at each other, and both saw affirmation in each other's eyes. When they saw this huge bone dragon, they immediately recognized it—they had been intercepted by Brox on the Endless Sea before, and he was riding this bone dragon at that time!
Aiden said loudly: "Everyone here has a noble soul! Only you, and these poor frost dragons, have your souls enslaved by the Lich King. Your souls are the ones that are pathetic!"
"You don't understand the great power of the Lich King, ignorant ones! I am not like those little guys you met before. Your invasion ends here! None of you will survive! I, Sindragosa, will bury you here!"
Sindragosa, the former consort of the Blue Dragon King Malygos, was seriously injured by Deathwing with the Dragon Soul during the War of the Ancients, and finally died alone in Dragonblight.
Ten thousand years later, Ner'zhul sent Brox and Dar'Khan to resurrect it. This powerful blue dragon had now become the leader of the Frost Dragons, loyally fighting for the Lich King.
"Form ranks! Protect the archers and wizards! Kill these bone dragons!" Aiden ordered loudly.
The knights of the Winter's Claw formed walls of people, protecting the archers and witches inside, allowing them to attack freely.
The heroes had found their own targets, and they knew what they should do.
Vayne chose one of the bone dragons. She took off the heavy crossbow on her back, ran quickly, dodging the dragon breath and spells from the sky, while pulling the trigger to shoot holy silver bolts one after another.
Quinn directly merged with Valor, transforming into a giant eagle and soaring into the sky. She and the angel Pamyel cooperated with each other and were hunting another bone dragon.
Garen protected his sister Lux, and the Lady of Luminosity did not disappoint everyone. She found an excellent angle from the flank, and after a dazzling "Final Spark" exploded, four ice dragons in the sky were penetrated by the super-powerful light power and fell from the sky.
And the most powerful target—Sindragosa—attracted the attacks of more heroes. After the teleportation was completed, Kassadin had also arrived here. He stood in front of the ice dragon leader, attracting the opponent's firepower. Relying on his own flexibility, most of Sindragosa's attacks were dodged by him, and if some attacks would hurt the people on the ground if dodged, he would choose to block them—but he had integrated the characteristics of the void, and ordinary magic was almost ineffective against him, Sindragosa's spells did not cause substantial damage to him at all.
But the other heroes caused real, substantial damage to Sindragosa.
Kayle carried one in each hand, bringing Aiden and Mograine into the sky, and then threw them on the dragon's back. Aiden grabbed the protruding bone joints on the ice dragon's spine, took out the magic seed, cast a spell to germinate vines, and tied him and Mograine to the dragon's back.
Then it was time for the three powerful users of holy light to unscrupulously ravage the ice dragon.
The Silver Judgment emitted a bright blue holy flame, and Aiden waved it with all his strength, chopping off a rib. Not far away, Mograine roared, and the Ashbringer cut a huge wound in Sindragosa's spine. Kayle flexibly danced her wings, and the Judgement Blade in her hand mercilessly attacked the ice dragon's wings, preventing it from maintaining stable flight.
Sindragosa roared angrily, it possessed almost infinite magic power, but could not hit any enemy. It shook its body forcefully, rolled in the air, trying to throw the two hateful guys on its back off, but that could only temporarily relieve the two's offensive. They were entangled in its bones, and once they regained their balance, they would immediately continue to attack.
"Despicable! Shameless!" Sindragosa shouted, it could no longer bear it, and a powerful suction force erupted from inside its body, sucking everyone nearby towards its body.
The Winter's Claw knights who were closer to the ground were dragged as if they were being grabbed, and together with the boars they were sitting on, they were pulled towards Sindragosa's body by this chaotic force.
Aiden and Mograine were also tightly sucked onto the dragon's back by this force. The huge force pulled them, making it almost impossible for them to stand up again.
Must stop it! Sindragosa!